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reference notes from readings, interviews, and other academic activities of the author,

completed academic papers written or co-written by the author,

notes pertaining to the author’s ongoing photographic projects,

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About the author

Tokyo, 2012

Orest Kinasevych (Ukrainian: Орест Кінасевич) is a digital media expert, educator, consultant, a PhD student of culture and education, a traveler, humanist, and artist. He is concerned with social justice and contributes toward reconciliation and equity in Canada and the world.

He holds a faculty position in the Creative Arts department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada, where he has taught courses in e-commerce and web site design, development, and accessibility since 2004.

Prior to his association with Red River College, Orest worked as a publishing technologies consultant to clients in publishing, pharmaceutical, travel information, and financial industries in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He was based out of the New York City metro area between 1992 and 2003.

He was an online publishing pioneer when, in 1994, he helped launch some of the earliest travel-oriented web sites while working for the travel trade division of the Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier Group plc. These sites included OAG.com, HTI Online, M&C Online, Official Cruise Guide, and others. In 1997, Orest led the launch of TW Crossroads (now TravelWeekly.com), the online version of travel industry newspaper Travel Weekly. In various consulting roles Orest applied his information design and development expertise. These include the re-launch of LasVegas.com in 2002-3 and the RoadTrip Wizard, a Travelocity product developed by LeisureLogix in 2007.

Personal

He enjoys travel, especially destinations of cultural or historic significance. His recent travels have included Morocco, Andalucía (Spain), Gibraltar, and Portugal in 2017; Norway, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands in 2016; Ukraine, Netherlands, and Belgium in 2015; France (Normandy and Paris) in 2014; Eastern Europe (from Budapest to Prague, Auschwitz, Warsaw, and Lviv) in 2013; and Japan (Hiroshima, Kyoto, Tokyo), Cambodia (Angkor Wat), Laos, Vietnam, and Hong Kong in 2012. In 2014 he sailed the western Caribbean Sea–from Guatemala to Cancun, Mexico–with three friends on the Dauphine, a 36-foot centre-cockpit sloop.

At the helm of Dauphine on the Caribbean Sea, 2014. Photo by David Vis.